Jean AKA Jeannie AKA Jeanie, is a film, book and magazine reviewer for a national magazine. Most of Jean’s work is done through e-mail, which means he does not have to go into the office.
On a trip to find a gift for his girlfriend, Jean found a empty Genie Bottle. Upon picking up this bottle Jean became the bottle’s new genie powered occupant. Not only was Jean turned into a genie, but the bottle turned him into what he believed a genie of the bottle to look like, which due to his fascination with a classic 60s TV show turned into a bust young Blonde female.

Remember the first time Araceli and Jeannie met, and how Jeannie was willing to trade bottle with Araceli not knowing that Araceli was trying to trick her into spending eternity at the bottom of the ocean while Araceli stole her identity?

Jeannie can be damned unreasonable at times, but her hatred of Araceli is fully justified. Araceli is worse than Jeannie because she is just as self-centered and not actually a good genie (She constantly neglects her real master Caley), while putting on a goody two-shoes act.

@Ephemerer: Well, first off, Jean volunteered to give away the bottle; Araceli didn’t “trick” anybody. And second, given that Araceli had just finished spending a few centuries in a bottle with no ill effects, it seems logical that she wouldn’t think Jeannie would have a tough time with it. After all, to a being that lives for thousands of years, a couple of centuries might be the equivalent of a long weekend.

Jeannie is pretty much a totally unsympathetic character. About the nicest thing she’s ever done was offer Neil a sandwich – one time. Araceli isn’t a saint, but she has the virtue of honestly caring about others, as opposed to being totally self-centered. In my book, that puts her head and shoulders above Jean.

@ Kattgirl: My guess would be she’s possessive because Araceli didn’t just try to winkle Neil into her bed, she tried to take over Jean’s place in the world, even if Araceli doesn’t see it that way. Also, Neil is the main person who knows Jeannie is Jean, and who at least tried to help her. He’s a psychological crutch to her, and besides that, she’s a selfish narcissist.
“Mine! You can’t have him!”

I don’t see Jeanie doing volunteer work like that when it come to doing battle with the Blue Dijinn.

I can see Jeanie trying to escape from Haji Castle and end running into Blue Dijinn and to secure her escape, she give him the other bottle of moonshine and he start sneezing or something like that and then she can defeat him while he sneezing.

There is one datum that neither Araceli nor her Uncle Guano seem to know yet: That Jeanie used to be a guy. Surrounded by beautiful genie girls in harem costumes, Jean’s fairly likely to act the man as she was just after Agent Anderson left, which could prompt Araceli to finally ask about that odd aspect of Jeanie’s behavior.

Yeah. I kind of like Araceli. She’s not perfect (who is?) and she can have moments of anger, vengefulness and even greed, but she also has humility and forgiveness, and thinks of others, even when it’s not reciprocated. Which I think makes her a better person, on the whole, than Jean, who’s unremittingly selfish, narcissistic, and uncaring about the pain she causes others.

I’m really hoping that Jeannie will learn something in this story and start to become a better person. I want to like her, but she makes it really, really difficult.

The cornerstone of Jean’s relationship with Neil is they are friends. Neil moved to tiny Cocoa Beach from Cincinnati just to rejoin Neil. Granted, Cincinnati is probably not much like Paris, but it has major league sports teams, a great medical school, a world-class museum, a White Castle on something like every third corner, and Hudepohl beer. And about 26 women in Jean’s strike zone for just one in Cocoa Beach. Cocoa Beach does have surfing, and that’s about the only really cool thing about it. But it’s not the North Shore of Oahu or Mavericks.

It also doesn’t have astronauts, something that was actually noted in this comic. By the time I Dream of Jeannie started, President Johnson had moved Mission Control to Houston, Texas (just co-incidentally in his home state) and that is where most working astronauts live now, usually with their families.

Jean got Neil his prom date. Jean’s first thought when she found out she could conjure food was to bring some to Neil at work. Jean tried to get Neil off his butt and get some exercise by trying to get him into surfing. Yeah, Jean/Jeanie can be very annoying, but if you don’t have any annoying friends, you probably don’t have any friends.

It wasn’t the bra that bothered Carrie Fisher, it was the metal bikini. She said there was a gap in it that let Boba Fett see “all the way to Florida” when she was the guest on Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me.

As I last posted, time is fluid around magic, from Neils perspective Jean may be gone only a few hours. But for Jean she could be at the harem for how ever many years, decades or centuries of behavior modification and education required. Sort of like breaking a horse, given enough time, remember this is a Medieval society, no woman’s lib here.

Guano may use whatever punishment he sees fit to get Jean in line. Perhaps occasionally Jean turned into a a fully aware solid gold statue decorating a corner of the harem, immobile for days to years depending on the severity of the infraction.

They don’t seam to do that, there more likely to do to Jeanie what they did to Rouyaa and throw her out of the Genie Core and get a new Genie to replace her.

But, there might be more subtle way to do it and that all the other female genie would be put through too. There are body messages that throw the female body into metal state of euphoria along with incense, hormones and other drugs that will cause a women to just lose herself in the experience and never come back from it. She will enjoy it too and want more of it after the experiencing it.

But, then she would not be our favorite Genie that we love to criticize either.

They don’t seem to do that either. There is some sort of magic influencing Genie behavior, but it seems to have it’s limits (maybe some conflict with human free will?). Otherwise, they rely on very primitive methods of “education”. Also, the goal of education is that she will serve her master. Falling in love with him – or lusting after him – is actually counterproductive, unless he specifically wish for it.

Remember that Jeanie is not in the harem because of behavior modification and education. She’s there because it’s supposed to be safe place against Blue Genie. In fact, maybe it’s not real harem and just looks that way because of architecture and lot of Genies in harem costumes – or it IS technically real harem but they just didn’t had any other building.